Speakers panel with five people

Panel discussion during the 50th Anniversary Symposium. Photo credit: LiPo Ching

Past Jasper Ridge Lecture Series and Symposia

We have hosted the following events at Jasper Ridge as part of our research, education, and stewardship outreach. Please note that in 2023-2024, our 50th anniversary events replaced our lecture series. Blog posts, news features, and video recordings for certain events are linked below.

DateSpeakertopic
2025 - 2026 Academic Year
May 20, 2026Sec. Wade Crowfoot, California Natural Resources AgencyPeople-Centered Conservation: Now More Than Ever
May 5, 2026Dr. Dustin Mulvaney, San José State UniversityThe Big Fire in the Big Basin: The long history and short memory of wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains
March 11, 2026Dr. Lee Panich, Santa Clara UniversityFrom Land Grants to Land Grab: The Dispossession of Ohlone Lands in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
February 18, 2026Prof. Deborah Sivas, Stanford Law SchoolTribal Land Stewardship: Opportunities and Challenges
January 14, 2026Dr. Michael Wilcox, Senior Lecturer in Native American Studies, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University Cultural and Natural Landscapes of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe: Reclaiming Indigenous History in the San Francisco Bay Area
November 18, 2025Bernadette Quiroz, Language Revitalization Chair of the Muwekma Ohlone TribeChochenyo: A Language Reawakened
November 11, 2025Charlene Nijmeh, Chairwoman of the Muwekma Ohlone TribeThe Trail of Truth Continues
2024 - 2025 Academic Year
May 13, 2025Brody Sandel, Santa Clara UniversityGlobal and Local Perspectives on California's Great Grass Invasion
April 23, 2025Laureano Gherardi, UC BerkeleyGrassland Ecology Upside Down: A roadmap to belowground processes
March 11, 2025Chinmay Sonawane, Stanford UniversityPumas trigger a tropic cascade in a human-dominated landscape
February 18, 2025variousResearch Convening: Prescribed Fire 
January 21, 2025Katherine Glover, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma), Stanford UniversityExploring the Past and Future of California's Ecosystems
November 21, 2024Paul Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford UniversityBook Launch Event of "Before They Vanish, Saving Nature's Populations and Ourselves"
November 19, 2024Lauren Esposito, California Academy of SciencesAmazing Arachnids!
October 15, 2024Tadashi Fukami, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma), Stanford UniversityFlowers as Islands: a 16-year story of research-education synergy at Jasper Ridge
2023 - 2024 Academic Year
April 15, 2024variousJasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) 50th Anniversary Symposium
November 30, 2023variousCelebrating Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve's 50th Anniversary
2022 - 2023 Academic Year
May 23, 2023Michael Wilcox, Stanford UniversityMuwekma Landscape, Archaeology, and the Narratives of the California Natives 
May 2, 2023M. Allison Stegner, Stanford UniversityVegetation and land use change at Jasper Ridge reconstructed from over a century of sedimentary and written records
April 4, 2023Bill LeikamA Year with the Urban Gray Fox
February 21, 2023Garrett Trask, Stanford UniversityRekindling a Ruined Hearth: Preliminary Results of Archaeological Survey and Historical Research of the Zoology Cabin Site
January 17, 2023Kabir G. Peay, Stanford UniversitySeeing the fungi for the trees: How hidden cooperative networks sustain forest health
November 14, 2022Chad Wilsey, National Audubon SocietyAudubon Science: Producing actionable science for bird conservation
October 11, 2022Sheena Sidhu, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford UniversityPlace-based stewardship science at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
2021 - 2022 Academic Year
June 3, 2022Steven Nightingale and Richard Nevle, Stanford UniversityThe Sierra Nevada: Natural History, Poetry, and Ecological Imagination
May 17, 2022Jessica Castillo Vardaro, San José State UniversitySquirrels in the city: predicted threats to our native squirrel from two invading species
May 13, 2022Robin Wall Kimmerer, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, SUNYBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
April 19, 2022Katherine Lagerstrom, Stanford UniversityEarth Week 2022: Wildlife research at Jasper Ridge: The wild side of E. coli and Jasper Ridge's web of life
March 8, 2022Stepfanie M. Aguillon, Stanford UniversityHybridization, coloration, and genomics in the northern flicker
January 11, 2022Emily Polk, Sibyl Diver, Richard Nevle, and Tanvi Dutta Gupta, Stanford UniversityEnvironmental Justice at Stanford: Environment, Community, Justice and Intersectionality
December 7, 2021Rebecca Miller, University of Southern CaliforniaPast, Present, and Future of Prescribed Burns in California
November 2, 2021Tom W. Zigterman, Stanford UniversitySearsville Watershed Restoration Project
October 12, 2021Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford UniversityDrought and the invasive Argentine ant at Jasper Ridge
2020 - 2021 Academic Year
June 1, 2021Jeffrey Schwegman, Stanford UniversityHands Off or Hands On? Perspectives on Managing Nature
May 18, 2021Kelly McManus Chauvin, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford UniversityA holistic framework for characterizing landscape health in the Santa Cruz Mountains
May 4, 2021Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, UC MercedWhat's soil got to do with climate change?
April 20, 2021Sergio Redondo, Stanford UniversitySignals of a Persistent Pollutant: Characterizing the History, Distribution, and Bioaccumulation of Mercury at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve (and beyond)
April 6, 2021Tanvi Dutta Gupta and Julien Ueda, Stanford UniversityJasper Ridge Undergraduate Researchers: Long-term bird population trends at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
March 16, 2021Carl Cheney, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve docentHow Dry It Was! Searsville Lakebed: Plant Discoveries and Stories
February 23, 2021Jennifer Adams, Bryan Rodriguez, and Esmeralda Cabrera, Latino OutdoorsConnecting with the Outdoors by learning and using iNaturalist while protecting vulnerable communities
February 9, 2021Mary Ellen Hannibal, authorWhat Makes the Bay Area a Biodiversity Hotspot?
January 26, 2021Paul Ehrlich, Stanford UniversityA conversation with Dr. Paul Ehrlich: From Searsville Park to Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
November 17, 2020Julie Cain, Stanford UniversityPart II: 1955-1976 Searsville Lake Park, the Clapp and Janes/Beeson years [video recording]
October 27, 2020Julie Cain, Stanford UniversityPart I: Tour of the early days of Searsville Lake Park with Olympic Divers Ernst and Greta Brandsten [video recording]
October 7, 2020Tyler McFadden, Stanford UniversityAssessing the Status of birds at Jasper Ridge and engaging students through the MERO Science Program
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